Places to Go & Things to See
Roswell UFO Museum Little Green Men
When local rancher Mack Brazell found extraterrestrial debris on his ranch and reported it to the local Sheriff a Pandora's box was opened. The local Sheriff called the local Air Force Base and a whirlwind of misinformation, disinformation, cover up was...
Russell’s Travel Center Blast to the Past
Russell's Travel Center sits on a New Mexico hill just before the Texas/ New Mexico State Line. It is close to Endee, one of those almost vanished New Mexico towns that shrink smaller and smaller as time barrels forwards. At Russell's you can gas up,...
Goodnight Home Snapshots
Snapshots are all I have of the inside of the Goodnight home, taking us back to the late eighteen hundreds and early 1900's. Mr. Goodnight died just after the stock market crash of 1929 and he, at 93, was ready to move on, feeling he had lived in the...
Charles Goodnight J and A Cattle Ranch
Not far from Clarendon, Texas is the homestead and ranch headquarters of Charles Goodnight, a pioneer Texas rancher. In the mid to late 1800's, he controlled a ranch of over a million acres, had 180 cowboys on his payroll, and was an industry by himself....
Albuquerque Biopark Frolicking with the fish
The Albuquerque Bio park is an oasis of water in the desert. There is an aquarium, rose gardens, a gift shop and museum, a restaurant, and a little train that blows its whistle as it takes kids on a sedate ride through the grounds. The Park has been here...
Owl Cafe Waking up
The Owl Cafe was born in San Antonio, New Mexico, one of many New Mexican towns you zip past on the freeway, not even dots on the state road map. The original cafe doesn't have an owl on its roof and is a fifties style bar and grill with ancient cheap...
Tram talk Going Up
The Sandia Peak Tram has been with us fifty years. According to our tram operator there are 600,000 patrons each year and the only time the tram shuts down is when the wind blows over fifty miles per hour or threatening lightning storms are close. The...
CCC – Civilian Conservation Corp 1936 Rock House Sandia Crest
On top of Sandia Peak is a rock house built in the 1930's by the Civilian Conservation Corp. Coming out of a government prolonged Depression, the CCC was created to provide relief to unemployed men by the U.S. Congress and F.D.R. During a short decade,...
Cochiti Golf Close to Golfer's Paradise
In all four corners of our state, as well as the middle, we have sovereign Indian nations who have land,an ancient culture, designer golf courses, hotels, and casinos. The Pueblo of Cochiti is a thirty minute drive from Albuquerque along I- 25 to...
Breaking Bad Albuquerque's Claim to Fame
Los Angeles has Forest Lawn and Beverly Hills. Memphis has Graceland. Florida has Cape Canaveral. Texas has the Alamo. Albuquerque has the hit television series " Breaking Bad. " This television show is a crime drama and crime and Albuquerque have...
New Mexico Vistas Albuquerque Museum
The Albuquerque Museum is in Albuquerque's Old Town. Old Town is not far from the Rio Grande river and train tracks that spurred growth in western communities in the nineteen hundreds. Old Town is a part of Albuquerque that is older than the city itself,...
Hillsboro General Store The old west in a new century
The General Store and Cafe is not really a General Store. You can't buy barbed wire, bullets, hard candies scooped from an oak barrel. There aren't bags of flour to load into wagons, fishing hooks or Doctor Edward's best elixer to cure aches and pains in...
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